This Statistical Brief presents estimates of percentages of health care spending by type of service and distributions by payment sources within age and insurance groups for the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population from 1996 to 2012.
Health care expenses, as reported in this Brief, represent payments to hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers based on health care use information collected in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component and payment data collected in both the MEPS Household and Medical Provider Components. Expense estimates include amounts paid by individuals, private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and other payment sources. All differences between estimates discussed in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level.